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  • Recipe Food Riddle 2
    Food Riddle 2
    So, from the response I got for the previous riddle both here and in my Chef In You Facebook Page , I guess its inevitable that I had to post some more…I better start writing new ones soon before the old ones dwindle This is also in[...]
  • Recipe Hospital 'food'
    Hospital 'food'
    My poor friend K was unlucky enough to be admitted to Cambridge?s Addenbrookes Hospital recently for an op, and this is what they fed her (she was lucky to escape with her life, quite frankly): Cheese pie - note the luminosity of the radioactive[...]
  • Recipe Food in Paris
    Food in Paris
    My First Meal This summer I went to Paris to visit my friend Holly in Paris. The first thing that I wanted to do was eat of course. Holly brought me to a local cafe/restaurant and I sadly don’t remember the name of it. However, I[...]
  • Recipe What is Food?
    What is Food?
    The evolution of the human diet is blowing my mind... After an excursion to the Eastern States Exposition a couple of weeks ago, I am officially frightened. How and why would anyone EVER want to fry a jelly bean? What is happening to food?![...]
  • Recipe Crimes against food
    Crimes against food
    I am quite often inspired to have a foodie rant. So here goes my first proper 'harrumph' on the blog. The cake above is Exhibit A - a selection of slices of banana and chocolate cake purchased from Del Aziz in Bermondsey Square, London.[...]
  • Recipe Food sharing anxiety
    Food sharing anxiety
    I have long harboured a realisation which I?ve felt too ashamed about admitting for years, but now I?m going to come out into the open with it. In a nutshell, I absolutely HATE sharing small plates of food with other people ? ie tapas style[...]
  • Recipe Baby Food for Thought
    Baby Food for Thought
    Jars and jars and jars Perhaps this seems a little out of left field... but what the heck is up with the packaged baby food industry? How have they ingrained in us so well that we can't do this ourselves, that prepackaged is the only[...]
  • Recipe Avoid Wasting Food: Make Soup!
    Avoid Wasting Food: Make Soup!
    I know I just wrote about soup. Actually, I wrote about a specific soup, and gave a recipe. Now, I am just writing about soup in general, because in one of the comments about the Broccoli-Cheese and Kale Soup , a reader told me[...]
  • Recipe Food Handlers and Negative Energy
    Food Handlers and Negative Energy
    I can't begin to count all the times I've gone to stores, restaurants, etc. and found food handlers slinging food around like they are taking out all of their pent-up aggressions on the food. Maybe I'm just really sensitive to this type of[...]
  • Recipe Kitchen rage
    Kitchen rage
    Yesterday I had a day where everything went so wrong in the kitchen that I wanted to stab a fork in somebody's eye. I was taken over with Kitchen Rage. My blog is called Tales of the Tiny Kitchen because that's what I have: my kitchen is minuscule,[...]